Color Photos of the surrender of U858 and her arrival at Ft Miles, Delaware
K-type airship orbits overhead as U-858 as crewmen are transferred to USS Pillsbury via motor whale boat off Cape May - USS Pope is in the background |
Crewmen carring Red Cross packages transfer from USS Pillsbury to the rescue tug ATR-57 |
Marines guard U-858 crewmen aboard ATR-57 |
Commander Noorfleet accepts the formal surrender of U-858 from her CO, Kapitänleutnant Thilo Bode aboard ATR-57 - LT Robert H. Braun serves as translator |
Crew members come ashore at Fort Miles, Delaware |
Crewmen line up on the dock. CO Kapitänleutnant Thilo Bode is the tall officer in the grey leather coat |